Chris Pavone grew up in Brooklyn, graduated from Cornell, and was an editor at book-publishing houses in New York for fifteen years. His 2012 debut, The Expats, described by the Sunday Times as ‘a captivating, sophisticated thriller’ won both the Edgar and Anthony Awards for best first novel and was a Sunday Times bestseller. It was followed in 2014 by the New York Times bestseller The Accident and his most recent novel, The Travelers,a Sunday Times Thriller of the Month in 2016.